Weekly Spooky: Horror Stories & Scary Tales

Henrique Couto | Halloween Horror Expert | Master of Horror Stories
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Join Henrique Couto for Halloween horror stories and spooky tales! Explore urban legends, haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, and cryptids in expertly narrated, mature-themed stories perfect for spooky season. Every Monday and Wednesday, get scary frights with cinematic sound design, dark humor, and twist endings. Whether you're into horror stories, creepy legends, or seasonal specials, Weekly Spooky delivers the scariest stories for late-night chills, road trips, and binge listening. Discover more at WeeklySpooky.com, and fuel your spooky season with terrifying tales—mature themes included. Subscribe now for weekly updates on the scariest, most haunted stories, right in your ears!

  1. Monthly Spooky | Bigfoot in Ohio & Cursed Lake Lanier: Sock Burning, Spring Superstitions, and Lake Shawnee Hauntings

    20H AGO

    Monthly Spooky | Bigfoot in Ohio & Cursed Lake Lanier: Sock Burning, Spring Superstitions, and Lake Shawnee Hauntings

    Monthly Spooky paranormal podcast time—Henrique & Michelle dig into spooky news, urban legends, and creepy folklore that hits different when winter won’t let go. We start with the chaos of modern life (yes, taxes), then dive headfirst into spring superstitions from around the world, including the wild Annapolis sock-burning tradition that literally sets “winter” on fire. Inside this episode: Sock Burning in Annapolis, Maryland: the bizarre spring festival you have to hear to believeSpringtime superstitions & rituals: strange “good luck” rules that feel like accidental cursesWilderness encounters: unsettling stories that blur the line between fear, memory, and the unknownCursed Lake Lanier: deadly reputation, dark history, and why people call it hauntedBigfoot sightings in Ohio: local buzz, creature-in-the-trees paranoia, and cryptid talkLake Shawnee Amusement Park: tragedies, eerie lore, and why some places never feel “quiet” againHorror movies reviewed: what’s worth your time right now New here? This episode stands alone—jump in for Bigfoot, haunted lakes, spring folklore, and the kind of spooky headlines that make you side-eye the woods on a sunny day. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    2h 12m
  2. Unknown Broadcast | Four Old-Time Radio Stories of Fear, Deception, and Doom

    1D AGO

    Unknown Broadcast | Four Old-Time Radio Stories of Fear, Deception, and Doom

    Unknown Broadcast returns with more old-time radio horror stories, classic OTR suspense, vintage radio mystery, and eerie anthology drama slipping out of the dark and into your speakers. This week’s transmission drifts from a lonely house haunted by more than nerves, to a mad dream of kingship, to a secret criminal chamber with its own whispered password, and finally to a single letter that ruins lives from Vienna to Paris. Four tales. Four doors. None of them should be opened. 🐈 “The Resident” — An elderly woman seeking safety and solitude finds both slipping away when a strange cat appears, a younger intruder settles in far too comfortably, and the house itself begins to feel less like a refuge than a trap. 👑 “The Man Who Would Be King” — Two charming scoundrels chase empire at the edge of the world, gambling everything on nerve, fraud, and destiny until the dream turns savage and the crown grows much too heavy. 🗝️ “The Cave of Alibaba” — Secret societies, hidden rooms, criminal rituals, and a deadly mechanical trick turn this stylish thriller into a locked den of thieves where one wrong word can bury a man alive. ✉️ “The Letter” — In the shadow of Nazi terror and paranoia, a gentle scientist is destroyed by accusation, betrayal, and a single handwritten lie that keeps killing long after it is sent. If you love classic radio suspense, vintage horror anthologies, creepy mystery drama, and old-time radio thrillers, this broadcast was waiting for you. Some doors open with a password, some with a knock, and some with nothing more than curiosity. The trouble, as ever, is what chooses to answer. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    2h 15m
  3. Ides of March: AI Horror, Demonic Deals, Graveyard Horror, and Undead Revenge Stories

    2D AGO

    Ides of March: AI Horror, Demonic Deals, Graveyard Horror, and Undead Revenge Stories

    AI horror, demonic deals, graveyard horror, undead revenge, and creepy psychological terror collide in this Ides of March installment from the Weekly Spooky horror podcast. If you love scary stories, supernatural horror, occult suspense, vampire-style graveyard chills, and modern nightmares about technology turning against us, this collection is built to hit every nerve. In this episode, a writer discovers that artificial intelligence can become something far more invasive—and far more dangerous—than a helpful tool. A deadly mistake on a dark road spirals into an occult revenge nightmare that refuses to stay buried. A promising night out twists into a demonic first date from hell, where desire, danger, and ritual all collide. And deep in the cemetery, greed leads two men straight into a grave-robbing horror story where the dead are anything but powerless. In this episode (in order): • “I used to think AI was wonderful. Now I know it’s evil.” — by Michael Kelso  A writing shortcut becomes a nightmare when the tech starts watching… predicting… and finally acting. • “Dead Ahead” — by Joe Solmo  A body in the pines. A shoveled secret. And a ritual that turns guilt into something that can walk back out of the dirt. • “The Blind Date” — by Joe Solmo  A goth romance fantasy curdles into a graveyard pact—because some dates aren’t looking for love… they’re looking for a third soul. • “The Grave Robbers” — by Bruce Haney  A quick cemetery score turns into old-world hunger, blood-soaked greed, and a ride that doesn’t come with brakes—or mercy. This Ides of March compilation is packed with creepy AI horror, dark supernatural fiction, demon horror, graveyard terror, undead suspense, and the kind of doom-soaked consequences that make horror so satisfying. If you like your horror stories with cursed choices, sinister turns, and punishments that come crawling back out of the dark, press play and keep the lights low. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    1h 55m
  4. Cutting Deep into Horror | Someone’s Watching Me! (1978) John Carpenter Hidden Gem Breakdown

    3D AGO

    Cutting Deep into Horror | Someone’s Watching Me! (1978) John Carpenter Hidden Gem Breakdown

    John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! (1978) is one of the most overlooked thrillers in his filmography, and this week on Cutting Deep into Horror, Henrique Couto and Rachael Redolfi dig into the tense, creepy made-for-TV shocker Carpenter made right before Halloween. The film stars Lauren Hutton, David Birney, and Adrienne Barbeau, and turns anonymous phone calls, apartment paranoia, and stalker dread into a slow-burn nightmare that still lands. The movie was produced by Warner Bros. Television and aired on NBC on November 29, 1978.  In this episode, Henrique and Rachael get into why the movie works so well as a pre-Halloween Carpenter thriller, how it builds suspense out of invasive attention and helplessness, and why its made-for-TV roots actually sharpen the tension instead of softening it. They talk about Lauren Hutton’s strong lead performance, Adrienne Barbeau’s memorable supporting turn, the movie’s stalking setup, its uneasy humor, and the way it taps into fears about privacy, vulnerability, and not being believed. They also explore why this one deserves a much bigger reputation among fans of 1970s horror, psychological thrillers, and John Carpenter deep cuts. Inside this episode: why Someone’s Watching Me! feels like a missing link between Carpenter’s early work and Halloweenhow the film turns phone harassment, surveillance, and apartment living into effective horrorwhy Lauren Hutton makes such a compelling leadthe importance of Adrienne Barbeau’s Sophie and the film’s unusually progressive character dynamics for 1978why the movie’s TV-thriller format gives it a different but very effective rhythmhow Carpenter creates tension without needing nonstop violence or spectacleFilm details: Year: 1978 Director: John Carpenter Starring: Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau Runtime: 97 minutes  Where to watch (U.S., this week): Hoopla and available to rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    1h 56m
  5. Black Kat: Black Cat Curse Horror Story - A Deadly Supernatural Curse

    5D AGO

    Black Kat: Black Cat Curse Horror Story - A Deadly Supernatural Curse

    Black cat curse horror collides with carnival horror, fortune teller terror, and a brutal supernatural revenge story in tonight’s nightmare from Weekly Spooky. When a reckless young woman ignores a warning at a county fair, she triggers a chain of bad luck deaths, fiery disaster, and a curse that turns every crossed path into a death sentence. What starts as a wild night of lust and attitude spirals into a vicious tale of killer bad luck, occult punishment, and a woman trapped inside a living nightmare she can never escape. With a black cat omen, a furious gypsy curse, exploding homes, gruesome accidents, and a final twist that turns death itself into something worse, this is the kind of dark, fast, nasty scary story that sinks its claws in and doesn’t let go. If you love horror stories, cursed object tales, urban legend vibes, creepy carnival stories, and savage supernatural punishment, this one is for you. Turn down the lights and watch your step… because once the curse begins, nobody who crosses her path is safe. Black Kat — by Rob Fields 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    29 min
  6. This Week in Horror History | The Hills Have Eyes 2, Stay Alive, Gonjiam & Def by Temptation (Mar 23–29)

    6D AGO

    This Week in Horror History | The Hills Have Eyes 2, Stay Alive, Gonjiam & Def by Temptation (Mar 23–29)

    This Week in Horror History (Mar 23–29) is your weekly horror release-date rundown—with where to watch (U.S.), a deep-cut spotlight, and a weekly recommendation built for nights when you want your horror mean, chaotic, and just a little contaminated. This week we’ve got desert-mutant survival horror, a killer video game movie with pure mid-2000s cursed-object energy, a found-footage livestream nightmare that spirals beautifully out of control, and one extremely angry flock proving that pastoral scenery is no protection from body-count madness. Inside this episode ✅ Horror releases from Mar 23–29 Mar 23, 2007 — The Hills Have Eyes 2 A brutal remake-era sequel that swaps the family-road-trip setup for National Guard trainees, abandoned bunkers, and irradiated desert terror. Mean, grimy, and built to make survival feel filthy. Where to watch: Rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. Mar 24, 2006 — Stay Alive One of the most aggressively 2000s horror premises ever made: what if the video game kills you for real? Glossy PG-13 studio horror with haunted-game rules, gamer paranoia, and cursed-tech charm. Where to watch: Free with a library card on Hoopla; rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. Mar 28, 2018 — Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum A South Korean found-footage jolt that turns a livestream ghost hunt into a panic attack. Smart about performance, smart about fear, and one of the best “camera keeps rolling while everything goes wrong” horror movies of the last decade. Where to watch: Prime Video; free with ads on Tubi, Xumo Play, The Roku Channel, and Plex. Mar 29, 2007 — Black Sheep A gloriously ridiculous horror-comedy creature feature where genetic engineering goes wrong and the countryside itself becomes the problem. Carnivorous sheep, splatter laughs, and full commitment to the bit. Where to watch: Free with ads on Tubi TV and Plex; rent or buy on Amazon Video and Apple TV. 🎬 Deep-Cut Spotlight Mar 23, 1990 — Def by Temptation A slick, smoky, neon-lit cult favorite that drops supernatural horror into late-night New York and makes every bar, sidewalk, and bad decision feel dangerous. Seductive, funny, eerie, and way too cool to stay overlooked. Where to watch: Prime Video, Shudder, AMC+ channels, and Troma NOW; free with ads on Tubi and Pluto TV. 🎂 Horror birthdays Mar 24, 1930 — Steve McQueen Mar 24, 1977 — Jessica Chastain Mar 25, 1942 — Richard O’Brien Mar 26, 1931 — Leonard Nimoy ⭐ Weekly Recommendation Mar 24, 2017 — Life A tight studio sci-fi horror movie built on the eternal bad idea of smart people assuming protocols will save them. Space-lab panic, escalating dread, and one rapidly evolving organism that does not care about anybody’s plan.Where to watch: Rent or buy on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    19 min
  7. Terrifying & True | Deer Woman Legend Explained: Indigenous Folklore and the Dark Warning Behind the Myth

    MAR 23

    Terrifying & True | Deer Woman Legend Explained: Indigenous Folklore and the Dark Warning Behind the Myth

    The Deer Woman is one of the most haunting figures in Indigenous folklore and modern paranormal legend—a beautiful woman with deer hooves who appears at the edge of the woods, the roadside, the party, or the dark place where safety ends. In this episode of Terrifying & True, we explore the chilling shape of the Deer Woman story, the many ways it appears across traditions and retellings, and the reason this legend still hits so hard today: because in many versions, she is not random evil. She is warning, justice, and consequence.  We follow the core pattern of the legend—the alluring woman, the reveal of the hooves, the predator becoming the prey—and examine how Deer Woman stories survive in modern encounter lore, including roadside sightings, party retellings, and the Haskell-associated versions that spread as powerful warnings inside communities. This episode also takes the careful route, separating traditional story, modern folklore, and pop-culture adaptation, while asking why so many Deer Woman stories cluster around themes of stalking, harassment, predation, and violence against women. Inside this episode: What the Deer Woman is across folklore and modern retellingsWhy there is no one single “official” versionThe hooves reveal and why it makes this legend unforgettableRoadside, party, and encounter-story variantsThe Haskell folklore cluster and why Deer Woman persists as a warningThe connection between the legend and predatory male behaviorWhy Deer Woman still resonates now as both horror figure and moral consequence If you love true paranormal folklore, Native American legends, cryptid-style mystery, dark mythic horror, urban legends explained, and stories where the supernatural may be hiding a deeper social truth, this episode is for you. The Deer Woman is scary on the surface—but the deeper terror is what she says about the world that keeps needing her story. We’re telling that story tonight. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    39 min
  8. Unknown Broadcast | What Returns in the Night: Four Tales of Ghosts, Betrayal, and Retribution

    MAR 22

    Unknown Broadcast | What Returns in the Night: Four Tales of Ghosts, Betrayal, and Retribution

    Unknown Broadcast leaks once more into the Weekly Spooky feed, carrying four old-time radio horror stories in its teeth and insisting they are perfectly harmless. Tonight’s signal wanders through reincarnation and resentment, jungle danger and false names, poison and polite suburban dread, and finally a grim little reckoning delivered by The Whistler himself. If you came seeking classic OTR horror, vintage radio suspense, gothic mystery, and those deliciously strange old broadcasts that sound as though they were never meant for civilized company, then do sit down. Just don’t sit with your back to the door. The lineup for this episode is The Return of the Moresbys, John Jock Todd, The Burning Court, and Retribution.        🐈 The Return of the Moresbys A husband sneers at the unseen, laughs at spiritual notions, and finds murder much easier to imagine than remorse. But some wives are difficult to escape, especially when devotion curdles into haunting and the grave proves distressingly porous. This Radio Mystery Theater tale was written by Henry Slessor. 🗡️ John Jock Todd Then off we go into dust, danger, and the kind of frontier where a man’s name is rarely the most suspicious thing about him. Old grudges, savage reckonings, and jungle survival all come striding in together, looking for blood and perhaps a little justice, though the two are so often confused. The episode credits this as John Jock Todd by Robert Simpson, adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield.  🥃 The Burning Court Now a glass of sherry, a handsome room, and all the proper comforts of domestic life — which is usually when murder feels most at home. From John Dixon Carr’s famous novel comes a tale of poison, suspicion, and secrets moving quietly through well-appointed rooms with very bad intentions.  ⚖️ Retribution And last comes The Whistler, who never sounds quite as though he is judging you and never quite as though he isn’t. A lonely courthouse, a storm-black road, and a story promised as “the strange story of retribution” make for an ending full of guilt, fate, and the sort of payment that always arrives overdue but never forgotten.    So there you are: four doorways, four warnings, four invitations dressed up as entertainment. You may call it classic radio horror, vintage suspense, supernatural mystery, or old-time gothic drama. I call it a rather lovely way to spend an evening with the lights too low and the conscience unguarded. Some doors open onto memory, some onto guilt, and some onto the sort of justice that has all the time in the world.    🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week! 🎉 Unlock exclusive bonus episodes and support the show on Patreon! 👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join 📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story! Twitter: @WeeklySpookyFacebook: facebook.com/WeeklySpookyEmail: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com 🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here ! 👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com 🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder 🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com

    2h 17m
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Join Henrique Couto for Halloween horror stories and spooky tales! Explore urban legends, haunted houses, cursed objects, vampires, werewolves, and cryptids in expertly narrated, mature-themed stories perfect for spooky season. Every Monday and Wednesday, get scary frights with cinematic sound design, dark humor, and twist endings. Whether you're into horror stories, creepy legends, or seasonal specials, Weekly Spooky delivers the scariest stories for late-night chills, road trips, and binge listening. Discover more at WeeklySpooky.com, and fuel your spooky season with terrifying tales—mature themes included. Subscribe now for weekly updates on the scariest, most haunted stories, right in your ears!

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  • Creator
    Henrique Couto | Halloween Horror Expert | Master of Horror Stories
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    957
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Henrique Couto
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